Measuring PFF Against the Darknet — Today the Progress & Freedom Foundation (PFF), a DC-based "market-oriented think tank that studies the digital revolution and its implications for public policy," released a report entitled "The DMCA Dialectic: Towards Constructive Criticism."

Google Notebook Screen Shots — A Google employee named Erica Joy has posted a number of screen shots of Google Notebook, which will launch next week at google.com/notebook. — Notebook looks like it is designed to be a flat out del.icio.us competitor, allowing you to gather content from around the web …

Report Claims Very Serious Diebold Voting Machine Flaws — [This entry was written by Avi Rubin and Ed Felten.] — A report by Harri Hursti, released today at BlackBoxVoting, describes some very serious security flaws in Diebold voting machines. These are easily the most serious voting machine flaws …

Interview: Paul Scanlan, CTO, MobiTV — Interview: Paul Scanlan, COO, MobiTV — It took two years for MobiTV to sign up its first 500,000 customers — and just six months for the next 500,000. The growth has been aided by the availability of more video-capable handsets and increasing access …

Ballmer: Google wants special treatment in IE — update SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Google seems to want special treatment on Internet Explorer, according to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. — His remarks centered on the default search engine in the Web browser. Right now, when people update …

'We have a lot on our plate and we prioritise' — Fresh from settling an anti-trust suit with Microsoft, the chief executive of Real Networks, Rob Glaser, outlines the company's strategy for success in the digital downloading market — Interview by Kate Bulkley

Tech Workers of the World, Unite — I was raised in a union house. My father was a passionate supporter of the labor movement and I've never forgotten that the union helped feed and clothe me when I was a kid. — Most of my professional life has been spent as a member of a union …

Lawsuit seeks to block Google settlement — Lawyers representing Internet search advertisers filed a lawsuit this week in an attempt to block a proposed $90 million settlement to a class-action click fraud suit against Google, a lawyer and the lead plaintiff said Thursday.

53,651 — One of the few benefits to being a technology investor based outside of Silicon Valley is that I don't spend all my time in the valley. While I'm out in California every few weeks, I get to spend most of my time in the "real world." — Over the last several weeks …

% of Red1 and Yellow2 Sites... Key Findings — All the major search engines returned risky sites in their search results for popular keywords. — Overall, MSN search results had the lowest percentage (3.9%) of dangerous sites while Ask search results had the highest percentage (6.1%).

Putting the Wire Back Into Networking — Back in the Stone Age of home networking, anyone who wanted to play on a computer not hooked directly into an Internet connection had to snake phone lines or Ethernet wires across floors and up staircases. — People talked about a promising idea …

Radio 1's One Big Second Life Weekend — While E3 rages on over Stateside, here in the UK it's wellies and arm-waving in the Dundee sunshine: Radio 1's One Big Weekend, all weekend, all free, all festival fabulous: starting tomorrow. And if you're nowhere near Dundee or didn't get a ticket …